That's RACIST!

The Sun King

Take a look at the following FB comment:

Donald Trump is a pig. Only the totally ignorant would support him. He is racist against all people except his own (which he doesn't even know what it is - a mix of who knows what), he is racist against women and now he is racist against the disabled. What does he have to do to get stupid dumb Americans to open their beady little eyes?

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I'm no fan of racism or any other ism, nor am I a fan of shutting down every single thing with the "that's offensive" line. I just want people to not be dicks to each other.

What worries me is that those that invoke an -ist are watering down the words so much that everything is becoming something-ist.

What do you think about this move towards safe spaces and the like? Now I'm not talking about "hur dur PC brigade" strike again stuff. Those that invoke that argument drive me up the wall too.

It seems to me that the Internet has had an effect on this. Online you can spend your whole life in the company of those you agree with, reinforcing your beliefs and when someone challenges them it's hard to handle.

biko

Whoever wrote that obviously hates pigs, which is a type of racism in itself.

Fleawuss

Invoking an ist.
Nice.
I wish I was pist.

lee_baby_simms

Black Friday is racist.

LDN_Irish

I completely agree with it and I've reported you for being racist against people who call everything racist, even when it's nothing to do with race.

Duggy747

The Sun King wrote: »

Take a look at the following FB comment:

Donald Trump is a pig. Only the totally ignorant would support him. He is racist against all people except his own (which he doesn't even know what it is - a mix of who knows what), he is racist against women and now he is racist against the disabled.

What does he have to do to get stupid dumb Americans to open their beady little eyes?

Either a troll or a complete fúckin' idiot?

Superhorse

I hate black things. The night sky, the back of my phone, when I turn the lights out, my neighbours dog is black and I hate it.

kettlehead

We are starting threads based on FaceBook comments now?

Buona Fortuna

kettlehead wrote: »

We are starting threads based on FaceBook comments now?

Things are looking up

LDN_Irish

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Things are looking up

Yep, nice to have threads started on something a bit more informed than an Indo article.

smash

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Black Friday is racist.

Hey, to deny him his own day would be even more racist!

The Sun King

kettlehead wrote: »

We are starting threads based on FaceBook comments now?

Yes Comrade, 'we' are.

kneemos

Pretty sure slagging racists is racist.

c_man

The Sun King wrote: »

What worries me is that those that invoke an -ist are watering down the words so much that everything is becoming something-ist.

I agree, let's take it back to basics. Trump's a c*nt. There, no messing about.

StringerBell

I learned something today, women and the disabled are a separate race.

smash

StringerBell wrote: »

I learned something today, women and the disabled are a separate race.

Got a link for that?



:pac:

OldGoat

kneemos wrote: »

Pretty sure slagging racists is racist.

It's racistist.

Cienciano

Most racist song ever? White Christmas

kneemos

Cienciano wrote: »

Most racist song ever? White Christmas

FREE THE UMPA LUMPA'S!!!

smash

Cienciano wrote: »

Most racist song ever? White Christmas

White wedding! Can't be having no interracial marriages you know...

Badly Drunk Boy

Superhorse wrote: »

I hate black things. The night sky, the back of my phone, when I turn the lights out, my neighbours dog is black and I hate it.

I'm not at all racist. All my clothes are black.

gramar

Cienciano wrote: »

Most racist song ever? White Christmas

I'll vote for 'my boy golliwog'

Huntergonzo

N1gger, is it racist to use that word for example? personally I don't think it is, it's the context that counts, not the words and anyway I'm not a racist person, in fact I love diversity.

LDN_Irish

Huntergonzo wrote: »

N1gger, is it racist to use that word for example? personally I don't think it is, it's the context that counts, not the words and anyway I'm not a racist person, in fact I love diversity.

They are good but it's a shame how Ashley Banjo gets all the limelight. Not sure liking diversity qualifies you to drop a "sup n***a" though. You'll need at least a solid tan and some mixed race kids for that craic.

smash

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I'm not at all racist. All my clothes are black.

I have a black friend and a gay friend so I can't be accused of being racist or homophobic. I just need to find an Asian friend now and then I'll be able to say what I want!

Huntergonzo

LDN_Irish wrote: »

They are good but it's a shame how Ashley Banjo gets all the limelight. Not sure liking diversity qualifies you to drop a "sup n***a" though. You'll need at least a solid tan and some mixed race kids for that craic.

Could always hit the tanning salon I suppose, and I'm starting to find it racist that black people can say ****** and white people can't, what ever happened to equality?!

Ken Shamrock

Cocaine's a hell of a drug

conorhal

I'm thinking of publishing a short 'pamphlet for the perpetually outraged' to explain the difference between racism, sectarianism and discrimination. It really irks me when peoples outrage is ascribed incorrectly, but that just probably just makes me racist against the inexact.

smash

conorhal wrote: »

It really irks me when peoples outrage is ascribed incorrectly

That's outragist

conorhal

smash wrote: »

That's outragist

Pedantist!!

Ave Sodalis

The Sun King wrote:

What worries me is that those that invoke an -ist are watering down the words so much that everything is becoming something-ist.

In fairness, I would think Donald Trump is a racist...

jimgoose

I think it's high time we had Safe, Positive Spaces to nurture pigs who are labouring under the misapprehension that disabled people are a separate race. I'm pretty sure that in self is some sort of -ism or something. Also, DT's hair is stupid.

keithclancy

It's a minefield ...

Dancing around making slanty eyes and saying "ching chong ching" is racist

Dancing around like a leprachaun saying "be gorra and bejaysus" seems to be publicly acceptable in most countries

If your an able-bodied straight middle aged Caucasian male you are completely f*cked ... tons of reverse racism and people telling you about your white privilege.

IrishTrajan

The Sun King wrote: »

Take a look at the following FB comment:

Donald Trump is a pig. Only the totally ignorant would support him. He is racist against all people except his own (which he doesn't even know what it is - a mix of who knows what), he is racist against women and now he is racist against the disabled. What does he have to do to get stupid dumb Americans to open their beady little eyes?.

I always knew women and the disabled were a different race of beings.

Huntergonzo

keithclancy wrote: »

It's a minefield ...

Dancing around making slanty eyes and saying "ching chong ching" is racist

Dancing around like a leprachaun saying "be gorra and bejaysus" seems to be publicly acceptable in most countries

If your an able-bodied straight middle aged Caucasian male you are completely f*cked ... tons of reverse racism and people telling you about your white privilege.

Well that's true, I'm always curious as to who makes these rules though.

LDN_Irish

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Well that's true, I'm always curious as to who makes these rules though.

Middle class middle aged white men.

The bastards.

Badly Drunk Boy

smash wrote: »

I have a black friend and a gay friend so I can't be accused of being racist or homophobic. I just need to find an Asian friend now and then I'll be able to say what I want!

These lads know how to do it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ

Huntergonzo

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Middle class middle aged white men.

The bastards.

Ha ye, must be their fault, everything else is. Does that mean I can get anyway with sayin' stuff then because I'm neither middle class nor middle aged.

Nodin

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Ha ye, must be their fault, everything else is. Does that mean I can get anyway with sayin' stuff then because I'm neither middle class nor middle aged.

No whitey, it does not. Three Chinese lads dressed as leprachauns are on their way to your location to mock your accent, make remarks on your diet and slag off the faith off your fathers. You will take it, and like it.

Huntergonzo

Nodin wrote: »

No whitey, it does not. Three Chinese lads dressed as leprachauns are on their way to your location to mock your accent, make remarks on your diet and slag off the faith off your fathers. You will take it, and like it.

Haha, actually I would like that, bit bored at the minute and that sounds hilarious, of they wouldn't call themselves leprachauns, they'd be reprachauns |-)

topper75

keithclancy wrote: »

white privilege

What does that term mean in an Irish context?

It seems very American - a land where white means the possibility or likelihood that your predecessors owned some plantation and used the free labour of negro slaves to create wealth.

The only plantation my predecessors were involved in was planting spuds and parsnips on a wet hillside and the first dark lad they ever saw was a doctor coming over to work in the 60s/70s, and then later some welfare chancers claiming 'asylum'.

Kindly explain the privilege of being white in Ireland? Tired of that ****ehawkin by people looking for a cause.

DEFTLEFTHAND

topper75 wrote: »

What does that term mean in an Irish context?

It seems very American - a land where white means the possibility or likelihood that your predecessors owned some plantation and used the free labour of negro slaves to create wealth.

The only plantation my predecessors were involved in was planting spuds and parsnips on a wet hillside and the first dark lad they ever saw was a doctor coming over to work in the 60s/70s, and then later some welfare chancers claiming 'asylum'.

Kindly explain the privilege of being white in Ireland? Tired of that ****ehawkin by people looking for a cause.

We had white slaves on the estate around the time of the Emergency. Grandfather bought them off a farm in Borris in Ossory.

Riskymove

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Black Friday is racist.

Don't worry, WWN tells me that US cops have shot it

super_furry

Don't befriend stupid people on Facebook or outside of it.

Simple.

LDN_Irish

topper75 wrote: »

, and then later some welfare chancers claiming 'asylum'.

Kindly explain the privilege of being white in Ireland? Tired of that ****ehawkin by people looking for a cause.

I was so with you for your first paragraph (genuinely) but then you reminded me of the answer. Being white, nobody ever suspects us of being welfare chancers who were only allowed in because we claimed asylum. That's pretty handy.

topper75

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I was so with you for your first paragraph (genuinely) but then you reminded me of the answer. Being white, nobody ever suspects us of being welfare chancers who were only allowed in because we claimed asylum. That's pretty handy.

Oh I more than 'suspect' that the asylum'-seekers' melanin-challenged, Jeremy Kyle-watching counterparts march in front and behind of them 1000 fold.

seanaway

Hey let's not forget we are ALL typists here whatever our background!

keithclancy

topper75 wrote: »

What does that term mean in an Irish context?

It seems very American - a land where white means the possibility or likelihood that your predecessors owned some plantation and used the free labour of negro slaves to create wealth.

The only plantation my predecessors were involved in was planting spuds and parsnips on a wet hillside and the first dark lad they ever saw was a doctor coming over to work in the 60s/70s, and then later some welfare chancers claiming 'asylum'.

Kindly explain the privilege of being white in Ireland? Tired of that ****ehawkin by people looking for a cause.

Well I live in NL .. It's usually Turkish people that are as White as me telling me that I have privilege :P

seanaway

keithclancy wrote: »

Well I live in NL .. It's usually Turkish people that are as White as me telling me that I have privilege :P

Sounds like a Michael Jackson Turk then (known on this thread as Turkists or Jacksonists). I've never met a really white Turk and I lived there.

topper75

keithclancy wrote: »

Well I live in NL .. It's usually Turkish people that are as White as me telling me that I have privilege :P

:P indeed
Just praise them for their progressive ban on enslaving pale-skinned folks in the early 19th century.

MRnotlob606

I Live off a steady diet of Vegans.